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To: redwood who wrote (23801)	4/13/2000 12:30:00 AM
From: Rande Is	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 57584

Congrats on your short plays from yesterday, Redwood. So far so good. And still there is no buying interest. We'll see if AMD can kick start the chips to lead a rally. But even if they do. . . I believe it will be short lived. The market WANTS to dump. . . no fighting it.

To: redwood who wrote (23801)	4/13/2000 5:42:00 AM
From: Tradelite	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57584

Redwood, re: HOMS......there is NO STOCK ON EARTH that I feel more negative about than HOMS. It even gets my blood pressure up just to think about it. I am a member of the industry that HOMS has been trying to milk for every dime it can scrounge up....and I had my own presence on HOMS for a price for the first couple years. I will never forget the night I went to the website to check on how one of my listings was being displayed, which I had just entered into the system. To my horror was a banner ad at the top of the page with a screaming yellow headline which read, "Jacqueline is going to kick your ass." It turns out Jacqueline was the name of some silly card game being advertised. I didn't care WHAT she was, it was not an appropriate environment to display my client's property for sale. I rounded up my colleagues and we launched an email onslaught which quickly ended this travesty. It remains to be seen how this website is going to survive, as it puts out bad data to the public, subverts the best interests of its clientele (Realtors), and is making a lot of people madder and madder every day. For the consumer, it's a great site to cruise and see homes for sale in various areas of the country. It has no equal in that regard. However, if it makes a few more Realtors angry with its shortcomings, the availability of listings seen on the site will decline. You can't buy a home thru that site, and if you rely on the ancillary information it provides about buying homes, you will be one misled consumer! Small example....school data available thru HOMS is (I'm not joking) years out of date. In fact, one of my colleagues recently discovered that a school which has been closed FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS is listed. My personal pet peeve is the grievously inaccurate and misleading neighborhood crime info available on the site. The clincher is HOMS' own admission in its SEC filings that it may never make a profit. Enuff said. Blood pressure now subsiding to normal......